Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Question on remote snooping.

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From: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 23:21:17 -0700
Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> > A daemon process runs on the remote machine, snooping a port that
> > isn't the one passing data back to the GUI
> 
> The software can't guarantee that; the user would be obliged to
> guarantee it (the user could well say "show me all the traffic...").

Well, worst case the CPU/bandwidth will 'throttle' the connection.  Just
cause the user can screw things up doesn't make it bad, eh?  Think
how useful ping is, and how deadly ping -f is :)

Ben

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